Friday, February 27, 2015

Leonard Nimoy passed away today after fighting a years-long battle with COPD. He had many great acting roles over the years, but his role as Spock is the one he'll undoubtedly be most remembered for. My favorite Spock moment comes at the end of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, the final Star Trek film to feature the entire cast from the original series. Here's a clip:

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Our hopelessly corrupt left-wing media is apoplectic over comments that Rudy Giuliani made expressing doubt in President Obama's love of country. Of course, these same media hacks were just fine with Obama questioning Bush's patriotism whenever it suited him. (And somehow they never seem to notice that if Obama held himself to the same standard on debt he held Bush to, he'd have to call himself the most unpatriotic president ever.)

Obama's early life was filled with communists and anti-colonialists who harbored a deep resentment of the West in general and of America in particular. As a young man, Obama specifically sought out Jeremiah Wright and chose him as a spiritual mentor, and he sat in the pews of that church for over 20 years while Wright spouted all sorts of anti-American nonsense; at one point Wright even explicitly blamed America for 9/11. Obama's political career began in the living room of Bill Ayers, a domestic terrorist whose terror group bombed the Pentagon on Ho Chi Minh's birthday. After all that, why should anyone just automatically assume that America gives Obama the warm fuzzies?

Michelle Obama openly admits that she wasn't proud of her country until her husband was elected president. This is the woman he chose to spend the rest of his life with? This is his soul mate? What does that say about him?

One of the first things Obama did as president was go around the world apologizing on behalf of America. Obama apologizes for America, yet he jumps to the defense of Islam again and again. Bizarrely, he even tried to credit Islam with being part of the fabric of our country from America's inception, yet somehow he neglects to ever mention the Barbary Wars. Obama refuses to call Islamic terrorists what they are because he refuses to believe they might actually be motivated even in part by Islam. And Obama's apparent anti-Semitism causes him to spurn Israel, America's greatest ally in the Middle East, over and over again. Are these the priorities of a man who loves America?

Whenever Obama speaks about American exceptionalism he either seems to dismiss it outright or he gives an answer that demonstrates a complete misunderstanding of the term. (Once, he even tried to offer himself as proof of America's exceptionalism, which is just the sort of thing you'd expect a malignant narcissist to do.) As president, Obama has always placed far more importance on the advancement of his own far-left agenda than he has on the constitutional principles of popular sovereignty. republicanism, federalism, separation of powers, checks and balances, limited government, and individual rights. Even the lectures he gave at the University of Chicago Law School were never much more than a series of "social justice" talking points dressed up as lectures about constitutional law. Can you really say that you love America when you don't love any of the things that make America special? Can you really say that you love anything that you've promised to fundamentally transform into something completely different?